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17-letter words containing s, p, e, a, k

  • april fool's joke — (humour, event)   (AFJ) Elaborate April Fool's hoaxes are a long-established tradition on Usenet and Internet; see kremvax for an example. In fact, April Fool's Day is the *only* seasonal holiday marked by customary observances on the hacker networks.
  • australian kelpie — one of an Australian breed of medium-sized sheepherding dogs having a short, harsh, straight coat in a combination of colors that can include black, red, tan, fawn, chocolate, or smoke blue, probably developed by crossbreeding between the border collie and dingo.
  • bankruptcy estate — all of the interests that a debtor has at the start of a bankruptcy case
  • basketball player — someone who plays basketball
  • chadless keypunch — (hardware)   A card punch which cut little U-shapes in punched cards, rather than punching out a circle or rectangle. The U's made a hole when folded back. One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that the term "chad" derived from the Chadless keypunch. Obviously, if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be "chad". The assertion that the keypunch was named after its inventor is not supported by any record in US or UK patents or surname references.
  • checkable deposit — a checking account
  • chukchi peninsula — a peninsula in the extreme NE of Russia, in NE Siberia: mainly tundra
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • egyptian brackets — (programming, humour)   A humourous term for K&R indent style, referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
  • fiddleback spider — brown recluse spider.
  • flat as a pancake — without any curves or bumps
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • japanese knotweed — Mexican bamboo.
  • kaleidoscopically — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
  • keep mum/stay mum — If you keep mum or stay mum about something, you do not tell anyone about it.
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • kick in the pants — a reprimand or scolding designed to produce greater effort, enthusiasm, etc, in the person receiving it
  • kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
  • lake winnipegosis — a lake in S Canada, in W Manitoba. Area: 5400 sq km (2086 sq miles)
  • make no apologies — If you say that you make no apologies for what you have done, you are emphasizing that you feel that you have done nothing wrong.
  • on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • on the pig's back — successful; established
  • on-street parking — parking (of a car, vehicle, etc) that is or is allowed to be done on a street
  • overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
  • parker house roll — a soft dinner roll made by folding a flat disk of dough in half.
  • particle kinetics — Particle kinetics is the study of the movement of particles and the forces that cause this movement.
  • parts of kesteven — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • perth and kinross — a council area of N central Scotland, corresponding mainly to the historical counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire: part of Tayside Region from 1975 until 1996: chiefly mountainous, with agriculture, tourism, and forestry. Administrative centre: Perth. Pop: 135 990 (2003 est). Area: 5321 sq km (2019 sq miles)
  • pinckney's treaty — an agreement in 1795 between Spain and the U.S. by which Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the southern boundary of the U.S. and permitted free navigation of the Mississippi to American ships.
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
  • porterhouse steak — large cut of beef loin
  • positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
  • sacrifice paddock — a grassed area allowed to be grazed completely, to be cultivated and resown later
  • severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
  • spark transmitter — a transmitting set that generates electromagnetic waves by the oscillatory discharge from a capacitor through an inductor and a spark gap.
  • speak one's piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • strike-slip fault — a geological fault on which the movement is along the strike of the fault
  • take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
  • take second place — If one thing takes second place to another, it is considered to be less important and is given less attention than the other thing.
  • take upon oneself — to take the responsibility for; accept as a charge
  • take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
  • triskaidekaphobia — fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.
  • video disk player — a device that reads the information on a video disc
  • wastepaper basket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.

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